Coping with trauma in domestic migrant worker narratives
Linguistic, emotional and psychological perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3658415 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hans J Ladegaard (0000-0002-9243-4994, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-221 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/josl.12117 |
| OpenAlex | W1729418585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 37 |
Trauma can be defined as an event that goes beyond ordinary modes of experience and linguistic representation. It represents a break not just with a particular form of representation but with the possibility of representation at all. Drawing on a large corpus of domestic migrant worker narratives, the article analyses trauma narratives in which migrant women share their experiences while working for abusive employers. The stories deal with unspeakable suffering and humiliation, and the article attempts to outline the narrative structures that characterise trauma storytelling: broken narratives with voids in the narrative flow. It also analyses the emotional component of trauma narratives focusing on crying, which is seen as an authentication of feeling and meaning. Finally, the article considers how the women make sense of their traumatic experiences, and how peer support becomes essential in the narrators' attempts to rewrite their life stories from victimhood to survival and beyond
Coping (psychology · Feeling · Humiliation · Linguistics · Narrative · Psychotherapist · Representation (politics · Sociology · Storytelling · Child Abuse and Trauma · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |